I guess I'm considered a "whale" without realizing it... I spend on average $50 every 30-45 days to keep up with all of the novels I am reading as I am a fast reader. I love it. I think it is a good price point. With good reason. You can tell they did market research before picking this price point.
Real world e-book pricing you are looking at:
· SHORTS: Works under 20,000 words will be referred to as shorts. They will sell for 99 cents.
· MID-LENGTHS: Works between 20,000 and 39,999 words will be referred to as Mid-Lengths(Mids). They will sell for $2.99.
· FULLS: Works with word counts of 40,000 or greater will be referred to as Fulls, or full-length works. The minimum price for a Full will be $3.99. Fulls can sell for any price above this minimum pricing floor that the author deems appropriate (I have Fulls that sell just fine at $5.99 and above). But no full should ever dip below the floor price.
Now as an example:
Full Marks Hidden Marriage: Pick Up a Son, Get a Free Husband the completed version is 2165 chapters. Chapter cost varried between 3-4 spirit stones it is 200 words per stone. So lets do REALLY rough math... lets say half of the chapters were 3 stones and half (+1 odd one to make it easier to divide) were 4 stones. 1082 chapters @3stones = 649,200 words. 1083 chapters @4 stones = 886,400 words.
That is a total of 1,515,600 words. Just think about that for a sec.
Now according to market research on pricing. At Fulls pricing it would be 38 books.
That is $151.62 @ $3.99 to $227.62 @ $5.99. Averaged out you are looking at $189.62 for the entire series.
You did not pay that much for the series and you enjoyed it... Why are you griping....
ESPECIALLY considering that the new price point of $25/month which if you look at the maths on the following post:
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/fun-with-math-and-spirit-stones.60538/
It covers roughly 300,000 words a month which is approximately 1,500 Spirit Stones. I know I read more than that... Sometimes in a binge night. So it really isn't over priced at all.